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Video – Creating Pride Through Decent Work in Manitoba
Social Enterprises in Manitoba Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba office interviews Social Enterprise participants from Build and Manitoba Green Retrofit. Great stories and great…
Work Life: Manitoba Youth Crisis Workers Left in Limbo
Manitoba Government and General Employees Union members at Macdonald Youth Services (Local 221), who provide crisis intervention services to youth and families in Winnipeg, walked…
Fast Facts: 4 things to know about women and homelessness in Canada
First published on CCPA’s Behind the Numbers Anywhere between 30,000 and 200,000 people are homeless in Canada, with another 1.7 million unable to afford adequate,…
Growth Charges: All Winnipeggers have a stake
The issue of development fees has made headlines again as the consultant hired to take on another study of growth financing in Winnipeg, Hemson Consulting…
4 things to know about women and homelessness in Canada
Anywhere between 30,000 and 200,000 people are homeless in Canada, with another 1.7 million unable to afford adequate, suitable shelter. Winnipeg in particular has a…
Work Life: What’s At Stake At Canada Post?
by David Camfield, Labour Studies and Sociology, University of Manitoba The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is currently engaged in collective bargaining with Canada…
Work Life: Inaction Threatens to Stagnate Manitoba Minimum Wage
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press July 18, 2016 Unless immediate action is taken, 2016 will be the first time in a generation that…
Social Housing with Supports – The Case of WestEnd Commons
Download 2.96 MB36 pages Since late 2014, twenty-six families in Winnipeg’s inner city have been living in a new, supportive social and affordable housing complex…
Work Life: Bill 7 Unfavourable for Manitoban Workers
First published by CBC Manitoba on June 2016 On June 15 the new Manitoba government introduced Bill 7, The Labour Relations Amendment Act, which…
Fast Facts: Energy East
Taking Manitoba in the Wrong Direction TransCanada Pipeline’s Energy East pipeline (EE), if approved, will run from Hardisty Alberta to St. John, New Brunswick, and…
Energy East
Taking Manitoba in the Wrong Direction Download 738.7 KB 25 pages Industry insiders claim that the Energy East Pipeline will create tens of thousands of…
Evidence-based Policy – wouldn’t that be a change
The case for personal care homes Budget 2016 pledges $160 million to create 1,200 new Personal Home Care (PCH) spaces. It is to be hoped…
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